Perspective

President Donald Trump is once again promoting anti-Muslim propaganda. On Wednesday, the president retweeted a series of overtly Islamophobic videos shared by British far-right activist Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader for the anti-Muslim group Britain First. The videos purportedly show Muslims committing violent crimes ― but, like many things on social media, they are misleading. One video, captioned…

Remember the name the Saudis gave their operation in Yemen when they launched it on 25 March 2015? Operation: Decisive Storm. By 21 April, the storm was officially declared over. The air strikes continued, of course, but the strikes on hospitals, schools and, in one notorious incident, a wedding party in Sanaa, were now part of an operation…

From almost the first day of his presidency, US President Donald Trump bragged that he would solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among his claims was that he could do what no US president had done. He called it “the ultimate deal”. By now, most of the world knows Trump is an empty braggart and that his…

Saudi Arabia is bypassing Jordan in its headlong rush to normalise relations with Israel, offering concessions on Palestinian refugees which could endanger the stability of the Hashemite kingdom, and compromise its status as the custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem, a senior official close to the royal court in Amman has told Middle East…

The Hindu American Foundation, The Hindu Education Foundation, The Uberoi Foundation, Hindupedia, and all the cohorts of the Diasporic Hindu Fundamentalist Complex are serving up their grown-in-India fascist propaganda. They are waging an ongoing battle in California to write their fabrications as history in school textbooks. Before we even look at their motives in California,…

Misleading coverage of recent actions taken by the government of Saudi Arabia has been widespread. Commentary on Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s (MBS) purge and his moves against Lebanon and Iran has tended to obfuscate the Saudi state’s domestic repression, sectarianism, and warmongering while obscuring the role of the United States and its allies in…

By Amr Khalifa Sisi’s emergency law will do little to counter the Islamic State, but it will legalise his dream: full dictatorship without pretense Twin bombings, pools of blood, at least 44 dead: it’s a week before Easter and both Christian and Muslim Egyptians find themselves in the middle of deadly standoff between the Islamic State…

By PANKAJ MISHRA MASHOBRA, India — “The world is going America’s way,” Fareed Zakaria wrote in 2008. “Countries are becoming more open, market friendly and democratic.” Since the fall of communism, American leaders in politics, business and journalism have repeatedly broadcast the conceit that we live, or will soon live, in the best of all…

By Bill Law Emirati security forces seized the human rights advocate on Sunday. Decency demands that Boris Johnson and the FCO condemn this outrage On 19 March in Dubai, Emirati human rights advocate Ahmed Mansoor was seized by security forces and taken to an unknown place. Friends and colleagues, among whom I am proud to…

By Amr Khalifa Waiting for Egypt’s economic revival with Sisi at the helm is like waiting for Godot Sacrifice, with victory as the supposed long-term goal, is central to both Egypt’s military ethos and a central driver of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s economic mindset. In early November, when the Egyptian government devalued its currency, I…